Crops: The Alex Cropley Story

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Tom Abell and James Rew did bat out the first 137 balls of the morning, putting on 56 with great skill. When Cropley finally pitched up at Arsenal in the summer of 1974, his early thoughts were quite striking. "Bertie Mee signed me and the double-winning team of 1971 was getting old, with guys like George Graham, Bob McNab, Eddie Kelly, Charlie George and Peter Storey still there. I did okay before I got injured.

Sam Cook needed just two deliveries to extract a thin edge behind to see off Abell for 83 before a wobble-seamed delivery nipped off the seam and into Kasey Aldridge's off stump next ball. Aldridge took the lead past 400 with a cover-driven boundary off Brett Hutton before Rew brought up the fifth first-class hundred of his short career off 172 balls, with 10 fours and two sixes. He moved on to Aston Villa two years later, lifting the League Cup in 1977, but another leg break meant he fell out of the side and briefly headed out on loan to Newcastle United.

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Earlier, Essex returned on day two searching for a fourth batting point. They eventually missed out by three runs despite needing 40 runs in 14 overs.

New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry pinned Division One's leading run-scorer Tom Westley leg before in the sixth over of the day. So on Wednesday 13th March, a crowd of 54,749 gathered to witness the last game in the saga.In contrast to the dour matches that had preceded it, this replay ended up being a classic. Everton dominated proceedings in the first half and it came as no surprise when in the 38th minute Ken Mc Naught nodded the ball down for Bob Latchford, Villa’s nemesis to score the opening goal. For the first time in the tie, Everton were in the lead. However, Everton knew one goal would not be enough as Latchford himself said: “Villa were too good a side not to respond”. Tom Westley had earned opening bowlers Sam Cook and Jamie Porter 20 minutes to bowl at Somerset before the lunch break by declaring on 462-9. He departed Easter Road for Highbury in 1974 after rejecting a move to Chelsea, but his career was hampered by breaking the same leg twice early in his Arsenal career.

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Cropley, Alex; Wright, Tom (2013). Crops: The Alex Cropley Story. Luath Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1908373977. One explained: 'We had a player [who] used to play constantly through injuries, and they would get worse and worse. He'd be injured one week and two weeks later he'd have the injury again. When you get a dead leg, if you start running on it in the first 24 hours, you've got no chance, it can get worse... but he'd play through to show the management that he had a fantastic attitude. He was constantly injured. Constantly injured.' Essex only won two Championship matches at home last season and have recently gone unbeaten at Chelmsford between September 2018 and September 2022. George Bartlett, unbeaten on 109 overnight, fell for 134, just three short of his career-best score, while Kasey Aldridge weighed in with 50.

Terry was already playing with a broken toe when he was injured again just before Christmas. The healing time for a toe left to rest is generally four weeks; by taking injections - a mixture of cortisone and pain relief - and playing regardless, the healing time extends to 10 months. No one knows the long-term effects of injections, but many sports authorities, the Australian Rugby Union for example, ban them on the grounds that they are a serious risk to players' health . Here, under pressure from the media and clubs and themselves, the players know what they have to do. 'I know the risks,' Terry said recently . 'Like everyone else I have seen ex-pros in their forties and fi fties limping around crippled by their shattered knees and battered hips. That will probably be me in a few years, too. But to me that's the sacrifi ce you make for success. I want to play in every game I can - that's the mentality I have and I'll never change. And if it takes an injection - or injections - to get me out there, then that's what I'll do. Whatever it takes.' Capped several times at both under-23 and inter-league level he made his full Scotland debut in a friendly against the reigning World Champions Brazil including the great Pele, in a friendly at Hampden in 1966 and did his reputation no harm.

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Paul Walter showed a few moments of intent in his 25 before a drive with little footwork was well caught at gully, while Feroze Khushi fended a ball which stopped in the pitch to first slip. He should be honoured not only for his exceptional skills but also because, as a professional footballer, he paid the ultimate price with a broken leg for the cause.” Everton and Aston Villa have the longest running rivalry in football. Both clubs were founder members of the original Football league in 1888 and have played more top flight matches against each other than any other team, a total which currently stands at 202. They are also the two teams that hold the record for the most seasons spent in the top division of English football, Everton with 114 and Aston Villa with 105 out of a possible 118. It is, therefore, no surprise, given the long standing rivalry between the two sides that they took part in the longest Cup Final ever played. The 1977 League Cup Final involved three matches at three different venues over a period of five weeks from the 12th of March until the 13th of April watched by an aggregate attendance of over 205,000. One of my indelible sporting memories is not a sight but a sound. I'm watching Aston Villa play West Bromwich Albion one grey day in 1977. The derby is always intense, but today there seems a kind of malevolence to the match, and to the crowd; you would n ot want to be out there. In the Villa midfield is a slight fi gure called Alex Cropley, a Scot who is in the form of his life. The previous season he had inspired Villa to a 5-1 win over Liverpool, the champions , and this afternoon he is making the Albion side - the team of John Wile and Len Cantello, one of the most uncompromising ever to take to a football field - look like park players. Walter and Das steadied the ship to reach 52-3 at the end of the six-over powerplay and Walter's fourth six took him to 40 from 20 deliveries in the 10th over.



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